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Festilitt 2025 program

Friday October 10

9h à 16h

École

Children’s Festilitt

Workshops and theatre for the children in the creche and the primary school

16h30 à 18h

Salle des fêtes

Children’s Festilitt

Children’s tea party and book signing

Saturday October 11

10h à 11h

Salle des fêtes

Authors’ talks and book signings

Gurnaik Johal

This year’s debut novelist traces the lives of six of Satnam’s distant relatives scattered across the globe, but all linked by the holy river Saraswati against the backdrop of growing Hindu nationalism.

10h30 à 11h30

Ecole du bas

Authors’ talks and book signings

Amadou Barry

Journal d’un exilé: A powerful debut novel that shines a light on the invisible.

11h30 à 12h30

Salle des fêtes

Authors’ talks and book signings

Hanna Diamond

Josephine Baker’s Secret War: Professor of French history, Hanna explores Baker’s clandestine war work for the Free French where, employing her celebrity as cover, she was able to move almost freely through Spain, Portugal, the Middle East and North Africa.

12h30 à 14h

Ecole du bas

Lunch break

Official festival opening and lunch

A lunch happily shared for the modest sum of 10 euros

14h30 à 15h30

Ecole du bas

Authors’ talks and book signings

Michel Jullien et Colette Olive

14h30 à 15h30

Salle des fêtes

Authors’ talks and book signings

The Booker prize-winning: Sir Alan Hollinhghurst

Our Evenings: The story of Dave Win, an Anglo-Burmese actor born in the late 1940s, that unfolds across seven decades, moving from the 1960s to the Covid pandemic.

15h30 à 16h

Cantine de l’école

Teas and coffees

Thé et gâteaux

Home-made afternoon tea and service with a smile

16h30 à 18h00

Salle des fêtes

Authors’ talks and book signings

Périne Magny-Lecoy

Remettre le western à l’endroit : A look back at the great and rebellious singer, Colette Magny who lived the last years of her life in Verfeil-sur-Seye.

19h30 à minuit

Salle des fêtes de Vailhourles

Dinner with the authors

Festival dinner 

Conversation and conviviality over local dishes.  By reservation only.

Sunday October 12

10h à 11h

Fourchettes et compagnie

Authors “coup de coeur”

Café littéraire français

Over a coffee and a croissant, the French authors present a book that has particularly marked them. 

10h30 à 11h30

Salle des fêtes

Authors “coup de coeur”

Our authors’ coups de cœurs

Each of our authors will talk about either a book that they have particularly enjoyed recently, or a work that has had a profound impact on their lives and their writing.

11h30 à 12h30

Ecole du bas

Authors’ talks and book signings

Francis Grembert

Les deux tilleuls: A moving portait of a challenging childhood in rural France in the 1960s.

11h45 à 12h45

Salle des fêtes

Authors’ talks and book signings

A. A. Dhand

The Chemist : Gripping crime fiction from BBC-adapted AA Dhand, exploring the dangerous underworld of a deprived Leeds council estate and the rival drug gangs who control it.

14h30 à 15h30

Salle des fêtes

Authors’ talks and book signings

Lindsey Hilsum

I Bring the War with Me : The UK’s leading war correspondent presents a innovative fusion of vignettes from her 40 years on the front line with poems that turn the horror of war into transcendent works of beauty and meaning.

14h30 à 15h30

Ecole du bas

Authors’ talks and book signings

Mahtab Ghorbani

Mille vies inachevées: The poetry of an Iranian women, political refugee and human rights activist.

15h30 à 16h

Cantine de l’école

Teas and coffees

Thé et gâteaux

Home-made afternoon tea and service with a smile

16h30 à 17h30

Salle des fêtes

“Théâtre musical”

Irina Lopériol et Mandy Govey

From Parisot with Love : theatrical journey to explore linguistic identities through the lens of humor, poetry and muscic. By blending sketches, literary excerpts, and well known songs, they seek out important themes such as cultural clichés and the fluidity between the ever-evolving living languages of French and English.  Can art and music, the beauty of words, serve as bridges between cultures, as well as a celebration of diversity?

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